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SUPERMAN #266

Cover Date: August 1973
Cover Price: $0.20
Publication Date: 1973-05-03

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Cover Credits:
Art: Nick Cardy


Story: "The Nightmare Maker!" (16 Pages)

Credits:

StoryElliot S. Maggin
PencilsCurt Swan
InksMurphy Anderson
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #218; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #159; also in flashback to his arrival on Earth; {last/next in ???)

Supporting Character(s):

Josh Coyle (in between issues #262/2 and #267/2)
Steve Lombard (last in issue #265; next in Action Comics #426)

Villain(s):

Doctor Phoenix / The Abominable Snowman (last in issue #263; also in flashback to 27 years earlier)

Other Character(s):

Gloria (first appearance; Steve Lombard's date)
a cab driver
citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Fortress of Solitude
Metropolis
344 Clinton St.
WGBS Building
Mount Aluhan, Himalayas (also in flashback)


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Second Story: "The Face on the Falling Star!" (7 Pages)
Fabulous World of Krypton

Credits:

StoryElliot S. Maggin
PencilsDick Dillin
InksJoe Giella
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Jaki (first appearance; in flashback; a teenage girl on Krypton, Mag-El's young sister; finds an Atlantean space probe)
Mag-El (first appearance; in flashback; a teenage boy on Krypton)

Other Character(s):

an unnamed teenage boy (first appearance)
his younger sister (first appearance)
Kryptonians (in flashback; the Surrus Tribe; first appearance)
Atlas (King of Atlantis; in flashback)
Atlanteans (in flashback)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton
Urrika
Bolenth (Southern region of Urrika)
Flame Forests (first appearance?; in flashback)
Space Sector 2814
Earth
Atlantis (in flashback)
United States of America
The Old Man of the Mountain, White Mountains of New Hampshire

Comment(s):

The flashbaks in this story takes place 10,000 years ago.
The Old Man of the Mountain collapsed on May 3, 2003.

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #40/4 (September 1983)
Superman: The World of Krypton ([July] 2008)
Superman: The Many Worlds of Krypton ([April] 2018)


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